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Why are we making people come into the office while it’s flooding, no signal lights, power outages?

Living in San Francisco Bay Area. Last week was pretty saturated with rain and more bad weather was coming in. Flooding was on every channel and the news reported the highest number of helicopter rescues ever recorded in a single day. 18 people died in the flooding. I told my team to work from home. I didn’t see a purpose bringing people into the office if it meant putting them in harms way unnecessarily. These are office cubicle folk, not nurses, first responders, and not in positions of “critical service”. They have the ability to work remotely but are not allowed to use it because our CEO is more interest on appearance and politics over employee safety. My director asked where my team had been and I said told them to work from home. You can guess how that ended. Are other companies making their employees drive when the roads…


Living in San Francisco Bay Area. Last week was pretty saturated with rain and more bad weather was coming in. Flooding was on every channel and the news reported the highest number of helicopter rescues ever recorded in a single day. 18 people died in the flooding. I told my team to work from home. I didn’t see a purpose bringing people into the office if it meant putting them in harms way unnecessarily. These are office cubicle folk, not nurses, first responders, and not in positions of “critical service”. They have the ability to work remotely but are not allowed to use it because our CEO is more interest on appearance and politics over employee safety. My director asked where my team had been and I said told them to work from home. You can guess how that ended. Are other companies making their employees drive when the roads are flooding?

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